Full Description
Volume IX in the Ben cao gang mu series offers a complete translation of chapters 47 through 52, devoted to fowls, domestic and wild animals, and human substances.The Ben cao gang mu is a sixteenth-century Chinese encyclopedia of medical matter and natural history by Li Shizhen (1518-1593). The culmination of a sixteen-hundred-year history of Chinese medical and pharmaceutical literature, it is considered the most important and comprehensive book ever written in the history of Chinese medicine and remains an invaluable resource for researchers and practitioners. This nine-volume series reveals an almost two-millennia-long panorama of wide-ranging observations and sophisticated interpretations, ingenious manipulations, and practical applications of natural substances for the benefit of human health. Paul Unschuld's annotated translation of the Ben cao gang mu, presented here with the original Chinese text, opens a rare window into viewing the people and culture of China's past.
Contents
Prolegomena 1.1 History of Chinese materia medica literature1.2 Structure and contents of the Ben cao gang mu1.3 Biographical sketch of Li Shizhen (1518 - 1593)2. Notes on the Translation3. Wang Shizhen's preface of 15904. Translation of the Ben cao gang mu . Chapters 47 - 52Fowl I. Water Fowl, Chapter 47Fowl II. Land Fowl. Chapter 48Fowl III. Forest fowl. Chapter 49Fowl IV. Mountain Fowl Group 11Four Legged Animals I. Domestic Animals. Chapter 50Four Legged Animals II. Section Wild Animals. Chapter 51Four Legged Animals III. Section Wild AnimalsFour Legged Animals IV. Section Residential and Strange [Animals]Human [Substances] I, Chapter 51Appendix5. Weights and measures. 5.1 Measures of capacity.5.2 Measures of weight.5.3 Measures of length. 5.4 Measures of the size of pills.6. Appendix Pharmaceutical Substances of Plant Origin mentioned in BCGM ch 47 - 52 in passing. By Ulrike Unschuld.
